Re: River flow

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 02:59:45 +0100 (BST)

Scott Haney:
> I think it would be Way More Cool (and perhaps accurate) to say that rivers
> all flow into the ocean rather than just downhill (although most of them
> *would* be flowing downhill). Thus, there are some neat places where the
> water flows up.

There are such rivers, but aren't they also exceptions to the flowing into the ocean 'rule'? (Though some, like the serpents, aren't really flowing into the oceans anyway, at least in any obvious sense, even when they're going 'the right way'.)

Cheers,
Alex.

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